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Identities

Posted on April 21, 2024 by aalahazrat

What am I. Continue reading →

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Vive la Liberte

Posted on December 10, 2010 by aalahazrat

Showing a candle to Lord Acton’s preeminent solar flares: power is jealous and absolute power is absolutely jealous. So it would seem that power does not only corrupt, power is also jealous and incredibly intelligent. This jealousy is revealed in … Continue reading →

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Janaza

Posted on November 14, 2010 by aalahazrat

Millat ka Janaza hay zara shaan say niklay. The collapse of our civilization and the abject slide of our culture and society towards the dung heap of history can be assessed by looking closely at a bevy of different metrices. … Continue reading →

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Jahalat

Posted on October 5, 2010 by aalahazrat

Ok, I promised myself I will not unload myself on Facebook. But Fahd has gone to Singapore, Hussain & Azer & Saad are in a different time zone, and calling Ahmed is extremely expensive and I need my daily dose … Continue reading →

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Faiz Sahab

Posted on August 28, 2010 by aalahazrat

I have always been absolutely in awe of Faiz Sb. So have most Pakistanis interested in poetry or politics or literature or aesthetics. He is the one aesthetic idol which we all worship for the beauty that he creates through … Continue reading →

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w w w

Posted on August 25, 2010 by aalahazrat

Not the world wide web and the glories of the Information Age; rather, What women want. Recent excavations at the city of Pomplaneum in central Italy have unearthed an engraved tablet which contains the first few lines of a groundbreaking … Continue reading →

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August Mubarak

Posted on August 8, 2010 by aalahazrat

I expected a pre 14 August post where I would be gushing and beaming with happiness. But, I have already lost faith in the country and its future because of all the violence at individual and communal levels rife in … Continue reading →

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Perspective

Posted on May 10, 2010 by aalahazrat

Perspective. A rather interesting English word that people from some countries are apt to mispronounce. But words are words, and Mangoes doubly so. One must not judge Mangoes or words by the apparent meaning that they portray, but, one must … Continue reading →

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On the academic pursuits of Doctors Murphy, Tang, Iyer, Hamidi

Posted on February 12, 2010 by aalahazrat

Two questions have baffled mankind since the dawn of time. We must consider ourselves lucky to be living in times when these questions have been answered. Dr Murphy’s (of the Boston Murpheys) eminent “Compendium of Useful and Liberating Information” published … Continue reading →

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Feats of Prowess

Posted on April 29, 2008 by aalahazrat

Work, life and more The human brain is an amazing organ. It contains, at the same time, the seats of knowledge, thought and stupidity. Recent studies at the Institute of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences in Vienna have shown that the … Continue reading →

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